Memory of fire
Subtitle: images of war and the war of images
By: edited by Julian Stallabrass
Publisher: Photoworks
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brighton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781903796498
Subjects: War photography; War; Press coverage
Description: "Illustrations include work by: Simon Norfolk, Paul Seawright, Thomas Hirschhorn, Don McCullin, Tim Page, Ashley Gilbertson, Susan Meiselas, Sebastiao Salgado, Stephanie Sinclair, and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. This richly illustrated book is a visual, theoretical and historical resource about the photography of war, and how images are used as instruments of war. It comprises essays and interviews by prominent theorists, artists and photographers and covers the urgent issues of the depiction of war, the use of images of war by the media, various forms of censorship, the military as a PR and image-producing machine, the circulation of unofficial images and the impact of the digital mediascape. High-level critical texts about the image war and the reproduction of some of the most compelling images of war, offer readers a unique experience. Memory of Fire draws on content gathered for the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by the book's editor Julian Stallabrass, supplemented with commissioned texts and interviews. Covering a range of twentieth-century war photography from the Russian Revolution to current wars, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, many types of images are illustrated and analysed, from large-scale museum photography and artist installations, through photojournalism and official army propaganda, through to amateur images made by soldiers and civilians."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Julian Stallabrass; title: Excerpt from Memory of fire / Eduardo Galeano; title: The power and impotence of images / Julian Stallabrass; title: Philip Jones Griffiths interviewed by Geert van Kesteren, Brigitte Lardinois, Julian Stallabrass; title: Embedded with murderers : Balad, Iraq, July 15th, 2003 / Rita Leistner; title: Ashley Gilbertson interviewed by Julian Stallabrass; title: Making an ugly world beautiful? morality and aesthetics in the aftermath / Sarah James; title: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin interviewed by Julian Stallabrass; title: Now you see it, now you don't / Coco Fusco; title: Geert van Kesteren interviewed by Brigitte Lardinois; title: Image, war, impactology / Stefaan Decostere; title: Trevor Paglen interviewed by Julian Stallabrass.